Black Slime

For the past few days Bug has been napping less and less. She's also been much harder to get to sleep. I was not looking forward to today as I expected it to be much worse. I think, however, that today will actually be better.

Originally I had been accusing the renovation next door for robbing my child of her precious sleep. The building consists of four Town Houses, each seperated by a four foot slab of concrete. I was told we would hardly ever hear anything from another unit ... unless there happens to be drilling involved. When they drill the vibrations carry through the steel and it sounds like there is a jackhammer being used in each residence! All day long they made this noise. So naturally you can understand my accusations! I was ready to take serious action when they started up again today, at 9am. However, after this mornings events I now think the construction workers are innocent and have cancelled my plans to cut their power during Bug's naptimes.

My reasoning follows.

When she woke this morning she had a poopy diaper.... a black poopy diaper. Ick. (I took pictures to show Josh but... I don't think anyone really wants to see it on here!) I had read online that black was bad so I called our doctor who said to come in with the offensive diaper (and the baby of course).

She checked out the baby, and then the diaper. We were all in agreement that such a diaper should not have been opened in such small quarters without the use of noseplugs! But alas.

Her first comment, aside from 'pee-U!', was, "when you said black I thought you mean bloody-black." Did I say my daughter has a bloody diaper? No. I said black. One would think I'd mention blood! :) She said it was nothing to worry about, probably just constipation but to watch for any signs of diarrhea or vomiting. In which case we are to give her PediaLyte and bring her back in.

So I'm hoping against all odds that her poor sleeping has been due to intense gas pains. Maybe everything will go back to normal now that she has eradicated her bowels of the black slime that had taken up residence.

As I type this she is asleep in her car seat, no way were we going to risk waking her up after having woke her once already this morning!

So we will see how today goes. If the drilling resumes and her sleep is at risk I will be looking for a pair of wire cutters.